Urban Edge Church Pinehurst gets a full Chauvet solution for their Main Auditorium

Urban Edge are an organisation of Christian churches based in Cape Town. Their lead pastors Sean and Tanya Phillips have built a passionate community of worshippers known for impacting the lives of their followers through journeys of faith that not only enrich their congregants’ lives, but it also allows them to grow in their own freedom and discover purpose.

With growth on the cards, the Urban Edge leadership recently built a stunning new auditorium at their Pinehurst facilities in Durbanville.  The Audiosure solutions team assisted them with a complete and colourful solution offering intelligent fixtures from Chauvet DJ and Ovation. The opening celebration was an overwhelming success impressing both young and old.

The lighting installation included 40 of the Chauvet DJ EVE P-160, 4 Chauvet Intimidator Spot 475ZX, 10 Chauvet DJ Intimidator Hybrid 140SR, 4 Chauvet Professional Ovation REVE E3’s all connected and controlled via the Chauvet Professional Net X II.

The 40 Chauvet DJ EVE P-160 RGBW are installed as House Lighting. These robust lights pack in 160 watts of red, green, blue and white LEDs for a full bright colour output as well as preset white colour temperatures that are built right in. One of the main features of the EVE P-160 is high-frequency LED dimming to maintain flicker-free operation on camera. Coupled with its fanless design it ensures 100% silent operation when running making it perfect for streaming and video applications.

For effects on stage, 4 Chauvet DJ Intimidator Spot 475ZX were installed. These 250-watt moving heads come equipped with an updated CTO colour wheel and come loaded with new features. Dual rotating prisms split the beam for great effects and cover a larger area. Motorised zoom is perfect for short and long-throw applications, and it also boasts powerful gobo projection features. With 10 710 lumens on tap the Intimidator Spot 475ZX was matched up with the Chauvet DJ intimidator Hybrid 140SR.

The Chauvet DJ Intimidator Hybrid 140SR is an all-in-one moving head fixture that turns from Spot to Beam to Wash at the click of a button. Packing 140 watts of power and motorised focus, the Hybrid 140SR has two overlapping independently controlled prisms that create dynamic beam effects, dual gobo wheels for gobo morphing and incredible mid-air projections making the ultimate effects light. Ten of the Intimidator Hybrid 140SR were installed alongside the 4 Intimidator Spot 475ZX, to deliver dynamic and bright effect to the purpose-built auditorium.

For Front-of-House lighting, six Chauvet Professional Ovation Reve E-3 were installed. The Reve E-3 is the brightest, multi-colour LED ellipsoidal in the Professional range and has linear colour temperature presets ranging from 2800K to 8000K with high CRI and CQS. One of the best features on this fixture is its virtually silent operation, making it the ideal light for studio, film, theatre and streaming, and with the Adjustable Pulse Width Modulation you can avoid flickering on camera, all this made the Reve E-3 the perfect partner for FOH at the Urban Edge Church Auditorium.

For control, the Chauvet Professional Net X II was installed for DMX splitting and distribution. This versatile rack-mountable Ethernet-to-DMX node has two 5-pin DMX inputs and Eight 5-pin DMX outputs that can output up to 8 universes simultaneously.

Once completed, the lighting installation at Urban Edge Church Auditorium will also feature Chauvet DJ Shocker Panels. It is a multi-use strobe, wash, or blinder that has 16 mappable sections that give way to creative programming flexibility and produce showstopping eye candy effects. With its 512 LEDs that produce high-intensity output with fast transitions.

For the purposes of this solution, Chauvet DJ & Chauvet Professional were the perfect choice. Nothing else came close with the result stealing the show at the opening ceremony.